Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 56% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 19 March 2085 at 00:45 UTC.
The moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2085 after 22 days on 10 April 2085 at 03:41.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1927".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1053 of Meeus index or 2006 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 5 minutes and it is 17 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2085. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠16.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠35.4°.
10 days since point of apogee on 7 March 2085 at 14:41 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 March 2085 at 12:19 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 369 935 km (229 867 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 064 km (225 598 mi).
13 days after descending node on 5 March 2085 at 09:49 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 March 2085 at 14:38 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 07:54 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.502°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.388° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 31 March 2085 at 03:08.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 25 March 2085 at 16:37 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov